Wick-holder.



C. MUNZNERL WICK HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR.28.19.17.

? l ,Q54;,34;2. Patented Jail. 22, 1918;,

a in-luv 1 Tot CHARLES MUNZNER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T AMERICAN STOVE COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

WICK-HOLDEB.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 22, 1918.

Application filed April 28, 1917. Serial No. 165,160.

' To all-whom it may concern:

3 erence-being had therein to the accompany ing drawing. 10.

My invention relates to improvements in Wick holders, and its Oh ect is to provide a wick holder which will detachahly and adjustably hold the wick in the wick holder in a simple and efficient manner.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a sectional View of my improved wick holder in position in the wick tubes and carrying the wick.

Fig. 2 is a partial sectional view of my improved Wick holder, shown on an eXagge-r' ated scale.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of my im proved wick holder looking atit. from the underside, the top being-. partially broken away and the wick in position in the holder.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional View showing n slight modification in. the bending of the lower end of the lwlder. I Referring now to the drawings. 1 is the outer wall and E3 the inner nul of no. nz'dia nary wick tube of an Oil store.

those skilled in the art, and the pertmratio'm;

also serve as openings through which the oil in the wick tuloe may readily reach the wick.

My improved Wick liolderlnis lower end turned inward, as shown-zit. l, and extended upward into an annular flange 5, the perforations 4.- =md. t3 forming with the ad jacent. well of the perforated cylinder 3, a U-sl1aped lower end on the holder in which the lower end of the wick 6- may enter when the wick is new and first applied to the holder, A plurality of elongated upwardly extending arms ,7 project. from the flange 5, and these arms are preferably integral with the flange; The upper ends ofthese arms are pointed and turned inward, as shown at 8, forming points which are forced into the wick when the holder carrying the wick is placed between the wells 1 and 2 of the wick tube. When the wick is to be placed in the holder, the arm 7 are normally in the position shown in Fig. 2, with the pointed ends or prongs 8 out of engagement. with the wick. The wick being positioned in the holder, the prongs may be first forced into the wick by the hand, and as the WlClCllOldQI and the arms are of a. non-spring or ductile metal, the arms will stay with the prongs "tially embedded in the wick. Even :Hgl'l the metal of which the holder and arms are formed is of a soft or ductile metal, the long arms naturally have a little inward spring, or a slight. tendency to return to the positions to which they are bent, before the wick is placed. in the holder. However, when the holder pushed down in the wick tube, the; inner wall of the tube engages the arms 7 and will force them outward and hold them with the pointed ends or prongs 8 embedded in. the wick. long" as the holder is within the wick tube as it is moved up and down by the raising device (not shownlthe arms are held outwarr and the prongs in engagement with the wick.

The forming of the annular flange or well ii at the lower end of the holder, for us a suhstanti al wall from which the arms? project, a lulu suhslzmtinl supymrt for the arms.

While the U shapvd portion formed by the bent part 4 and flange 5 may he in some cases madesuliiciently widr to re olvethe lower end of the wick, as in Fig. l, preterehly the space between the wall and the oylinder 3 not sufliciem'ly wide to conxyniently receive the frayed end 9 of the wick, as shown in Fig. 2. In fact, this flange not. prinmrily for the pin-pl e of forming a U-shaped pocket fort the l1 wick, though it may be u: for that purpose. The prinnrry object ..r'- the flange is to form. a substantial support-for the" arms 7 and from which they project, and to also 'r end. of the form. a stilt lower end for the holder and cause it to maintain its props circular form. By means of. this improvement the new wicks may be applied'to the holder and Wlll not. necessitate a new holder when it new I urn aware that it is not new to provides holder with prongs adapted to be forced in the wick whereby. new wicks may be applied to the holder, and wherebfy the. wick is a plurality of upwardly extending integral vertioallyadjustable, bufso arias I am elongated narrow arms oa-zri'edbythefiange awareg it has'not been accomplished in the and having their upper ends-pointed and 5 waylhei e'shewn and according to my presturned outwardly forming prongs adapted V 5 entspecific improvement. to enter a wick and held therein by the in- Having thus described my invention, nerwall of a Wick tube. .what I claim and desire to secure by' Let- In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my ters Patent is- 1 signature ,in the presence of two Witnesses. 20 An improved wick holder comprising a CHARLES MUNZNER. 19 perforated cylinder having its lowerend Witnesses:

bent inwardly and upwardly to form an i G. B. CHILD,

, ner annular upwardly extending flange, and HENRY MOECKER, Jr. 

